Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A

Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by foobarian on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:06PM (#24042709)

And you can't charge the phone while it's plugged in.

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Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by jorvi on Monday August 03, 2020 @05:41PM (#24043796)

You can if you order a Chinese splitter. All it does is split your lightning into two ports: the charging pins and all the other pins. Because the sound is sent digitally from your lighting port to the splitter, then digitally again to the lightning-to-3.5mm dongle you have no quality loss from a subpar splitter chip.

Edit: to be clear, this shouldn’t be needed, but alas, we cannot steer Apple.

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Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by switch007 on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:12PM (#24042768)

iPhones have had wireless charging for a while though. Not as convenient of course.

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Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by arvinsim on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:52AM (#24046724)

For me, it’s more of a problem with my iPad Pro.

It’s not even about charging. It’s about having to buy a USB-C hub just to plug in my headphones and midi controller to my iPad Pro.

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Re:Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A by sharatvir on Monday August 03, 2020 @04:14PM (#24042801)

It’s possible if you use a wireless charger

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